Jimmy Kimmel is mourning the loss of his lifelong friend Cleto Escobedo III.On Tuesday, Nov. 11, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host announced the d...

"I'm going to take yet another lesson from him and acknowledge how lucky I was to have him literally at my side for so many years," an emoti...

Jimmy Kimmel is taking a break following the death of his friend and bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, otherwise known and Jr. Jimmy Kimmel Liv...

Jimmy Kimmel opened Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with a heartfelt tribute to his childhood friend and late-night bandleader Cle...

Jimmy Kimmel was visibly distraught following the death of his close friend Cleto Escobedo III, the musical director of Jimmy Kimmel Live! a...

Jimmy Kimmel is paying tribute to his lifelong friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live! Bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III, after the musician died at 59....

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

Cleto Escobedo III, the longtime musical director of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has died at the age of 59. Escobedo, who was a childhood friend of...

Escobedo had been with the late night show since its start in 2003.

Cleto Escobedo III, the leader of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! band Cleto and the Cletones, died at age 59 on Tuesday morning. The tragic news was...

Cleto Escobedo III, Jimmy Kimmel’s close friend and the bandleader of his talk show, has died. He was 59. Kimmel shared the news on Instagra...

The late-night host announced the saxophonist, who was his childhood friend, died Tuesday

Late night host said the friends were ‘inseparable since I was nine years old’

Kimmel and the musician, who toured with Earth, Wind and Fire, became friends in Las Vegas when the late night host was nine-years-old.