Dru Heller has logged two decades as an expressive, interactive drummer, composer, and bandleader — touring and recording with Byron, Ron Miles, Greg Osby, Art Lande, and John Ellis, featured on Byron's original score for the PBS American Masters documentary Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes Feeling Heart — Denver-based since 2013, first-call across the region, known among musicians as an active listener and an engaged, empathetic teacher, on faculty at Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado-Denver.