Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleto Valentine Escobedo III, August 2015 (Randy Holmes/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) Cleto Escobedo III, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleto Escobedo III, Jimmy Kimmel’s close friend and the bandleader of his talk show, has died. He was 59. Kimmel shared the news ...

Jimmy Kimmel Live! lost a friend and colleague in house bandleader Cleto Escobedo III. The Cleto and the Cletones saxophone player, who was also Jimmy Kimmel‘s best friend growing up, died at age of ...

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Cleto Escobedo III, the beloved Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader of Cleto and the Cletones, died on November 11, 2025. He was 59. Jimmy Kimmel was the one to break the news in a heartbreaking statement, ...

Cleto Escobedo III, longtime band leader on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, died at the age of 59, Jimmy Kimmel shared via Instagram on November 11. “Early this morning, we lost a great friend, father, son, ...

Less than a week after Cleto Escobedo III died at age 59, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host shared that his late band leader was undergoing treatment at a medical center leading up to his passing. And while ...

As a kid growing up in Las Vegas, Cleto Escobedo and his best friend delighted in playing pranks together. "We kind of had the same sense of humor," he recalled in a 2022 oral history interview with ...

Cleto Escobedo III, the bandleader for the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in-house band Cleto and the Cletones, has died. He was 59. Kimmel shared the news about his childhood friend on social media on Tuesday, ...

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is mourning the death of one of his oldest friends — his show’s bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III. Kimmel announced Escobedo’s death Tuesday on Instagram, saying ...