King, Diana Krall, Herbie Hancock, Ella Fitzgerald, Cal Tjader, Sergio Mendes, and Dave Brubeck.

KKJZ-HD3 is known as "22 West Radio", a station run and programmed by the students and faculty at California State University Long Beach.

The owner of KKJZ's non-commercial broadcast license, the California State University, Long Beach Research Foundation, has contracted with Global Jazz, Inc., to program and manage the station.

Prior to that date the management and programming were performed by Pacific Public Radio, an organization created by the CSULB Foundation.

Horace Silver, Louie Bellson, and Bob Florence ("Bebop Charlie", "Nilestones"), and others have written tunes for “Carlitos Niles”.