Jimmy Kimmel is paying tribute to one of his oldest friends and closest collaborators, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who has died at 59. The late-night host shared the news ...

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 ...

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 ...