About

Joel Humann is a Canadian bassist, composer, and bad academic based in Cambridge, UK. With a background rooted in the local jazz and improvisation scenes of his native Southern Ontario, Joel has built a decades-long career as a sideman in the United Kingdom, known for his tone, timing, and sensitivity. His work spans modern bop-informed jazz, intimate pop collaborations, adventurous experimental ensembles, and quiet solo meditations, always favouring musicality over flash.

Now operating through his imprint Vox Humanna, Joel is beginning to release music under his own name for the first time — often drawn from live recordings, trio sessions, and improvisational fragments. His approach is deeply personal: informed by a love of tone and touch, long listening sessions, vinyl records, and the quiet poetic logic of music that unfolds over time.

When not playing, Joel is also (reluctantly) an academic, teaching and writing about music and ideas. He believes in mistakes, swing, and the mystery that lives between the notes.