Escobedo had been leading Kimmel's house band since the show launched in 2003. The musician and the comedian were childhood friends in Las Vegas. Cleto Escobedo III, leader of Jimmy Kimmel's house ...

Jimmy Kimmel’s longtime bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III, died from a heart condition. TMZ reports the musician’s heart couldn’t pump enough blood. The outlet obtained Escobedo’s death certificate and ...

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 ...

Escobedo’s cause of death was revealed less than a week after Kimmel made the heartbreaking announcement. Cleto Escobedo III, the beloved Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader of Cleto and the Cletones, died ...

Cleto Escobedo attends as Keep Memory Alive hosts star-studded lineup at annual "Power Of Love" gala at MGM Grand Garden Arena on February 22, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty ...

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel announced he is taking the rest of the week off after the death of his best friend and the show’s bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III. Kimmel gave an emotional tribute to his ...

On Tuesday night, talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel broke down crying while paying a tribute to his late best friend and the bandleader of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Cleto Escobedo. Escobedo died earlier that ...

Jimmy Kimmel‘s late house bandleader and friend, Cleto Escobedo III, is survived by his family. The saxophone player, whom Kimmel described as a “prodigy” since childhood, died at the age of 59 on ...

An emotional Jimmy Kimmel paid tribute to his friend, Cleto Escobedo III, the leader of his show’s band, Cleto and the Cletones. “I’ve had to do some hard monologues along the way, but this one’s the ...

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 ...