Evelyn Glennie is mostly deaf and is one of the most amazing percussionists/musicians working today. Here's a TED talk she gave about listening in 2003:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen.html
There's a great great movie of Ms. Glennie, called Touch The Sound, where she's playing with Fred Frith in an abandoned sugar factory. They both know how to listen to each other, to other people and their environments.
It's a skill we all should be so lucky to have.