Bipolar was born one morning in July 2005, when trumpeter, composer Jed Feuer awakened with a fervent desire to start a quintet. A group which would demonstrate variety, energy, taste and almost always, a departure from the ordinary. The attempt would be to pave new roads into jazz recording and performance possibilities. He immediately enlisted the help of pianist Craig Swanson who expressed great enthusiasm, and six months later, Bipolar was performing at Bargemusic, The Metropolitan Room, Jazz at St. Peter's and other notable venues around New York. Relying on strongly tailored arrangements of tunes as wide-ranging as Bach's B minor Prelude, Debussy's Passepied, Joe Henderson's Serenity, to captivating originals by Feuer and Swanson, Bipolar continues to draw from the most unusual and eclectic pool of source material to be used by any jazz quintet.