Kimmel shared a statement on social media announcing his death. Jimmy Kimmel's bandleader, and childhood friend, Cleto Escobedo III died on Tuesday morning, Kimmel announced on social media. Escobedo, ...

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, ...

Cleto Escobedo III, longtime bandleader of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show, has died, Jimmy Kimmel announced on Tuesday. He was 59 years old. The late-night talk show host mourned the death of one of ...

Mr. Kimmel said that he and Mr. Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old.” By Sopan Deb Cleto Escobedo III, a saxophonist whose ...

On Nov. 11, 2025, Jimmy Kimmel announced on Facebook that his longtime friend and bandleader on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Cleto Escobedo, died. According to Page Six, Cleto died following complications due ...

Cleto Escobedo III, the leader of Cleto and the Cletones, the house band on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has died. The artist died on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at the age of 59, Jimmy Kimmel shared in an Instagram post ...

Jimmy Kimmel's bandleader, and childhood friend, Cleto Escobedo III died on Tuesday morning, Kimmel announced on social media. Escobedo, who led the band Cleto and the Cletones on Kimmel's show "Jimmy ...

Former ABC News senior correspondent Jim Avila has died at the age of 69 after battling a "long illness," the network announced on Thursday. Avila, who worked as a correspondent on the ABC series ...

Cleto Escobedo III, the bandleader for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” died Tuesday at the age of 59. Kimmel broke the news of his long-time friend and colleague’s death on his Instagram. “Early this morning, ...