In honor of Cleto Escobedo III, host Jimmy Kimmel's longtime bandleader and friend, who died on Nov. 11 at the age of 59, the Kimmel Live house band is officially rebranding from Cleto and the ...

On Nov. 11, Jimmy Kimmel announced on Instagram that his childhood best friend, Cleto Escobedo III, had died Escobedo had been the leader of Cleto and the Cletones, the house band for Jimmy Kimmel ...

LOS ANGELES — The cause of death has been determined for Cleto Escobedo III, the longtime bandleader of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" who died Tuesday at age 59, according to his death certificate. Additional ...

Jimmy Kimmel Live! isn’t the same without the late Cleto Escobedo III. The late-night show’s opening in its Monday, Nov. 17 episode looked a little different. The program's house band, which used to ...

Jimmy Kimmel Live is paying tribute to one of its own. A new title sequence that introduced Monday's episode of Kimmel Live debuted the change, flashing "The Cletones" for the first time in the band's ...