In Junior Highschool, Nate Morgan played in various bands and studied with Joe Sample and Hampton Hawes.
[3][4] In the following years he worked mainly in the Los Angeles jazz community, playing with Horace Tapscott, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Renée Geyer and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
[1] He was influenced by Stanley Cowell and McCoy Tyner, and often played in Charlie O's music club in Van Nuys and in Encino, alongside Arthur Blythe, John Heard, Charles Owens, Nedra Wheeler and Sonship Theus, and in a piano duete with Elias Negash.
[5] Morgan recorded three albums, was conductor of the Ujaama Ensemble and a member of the soul jazz group, Build an Ark.
A tribute concert in honor of Morgan's 50th birthday was played by Kamau Daa'ood, Pharoah Sanders, Ojenke, Otis O’Solomon Smith and Arthur Blythe.