Walter S. Gershon

Walter S. Gershon (Ph.D.) is an educator, saxophonist, and Afro-Caribbean percussionist. Dr. Gershon is Associate Professor, Critical Foundations of Education at Rowan University (NJ, USA). His scholarship focuses on questions of justice, access, and dignity for disenfranchised youth. Walter’s work often uses sonic methodologies to better understand how young people make sense and the ways that society and culture shape those sensibilities.

Walter has played with a wide variety of musicians and musical traditions including Mansour, Vinx, Rod Poole, Dana Reason, Badal Roy, poets Quincy Troupe and Eintou Springer and formed the group Erroneous Funk with co-members Renee Coloumbe and Mark Graham. Walter’s current projects include Neo-soul group Braylnn and the Beards, improvising collective Imaginary Lines (saxophones/percussion), ongoing collaborations with Norwegian musician/improvisers Sunniva Hovde and Tor Einer Bekkan, and Cecil Neck a duo that explores low end improvisational possibilities.