Comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is mourning the death of one of his closest friends, Cleto Escobedo III, musician and the show’s bandleader of Cleto and the Cletones, who died ...

Cleto Escobedo III died suddenly last week after 22 years leading the house band on the late-night show The house band for Jimmy Kimmel Live! returned for the Nov. 17 episode with a new name after the ...

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 ...

Cleto Escobedo III’s legacy lives on. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has honored Escobedo, the program’s house band leader who died Nov. 11 at age 59, by changing the musical group’s name. During the late night ...

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 ...

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 ...

The house band for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has changed its name after the death of their bandleader, Cleto Escobedo. Formerly known as Cleto and the Cletones, they revealed their new name, The Cletones, ...

'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' House Band Changes Name After Cleto Escobedo's Death The 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ house band has changed its name following the death of band leader Cleto Escobedo III at the age of ...

The group, originally named "Cleto and the Cletones," revealed their new name during the late-night show’s Nov. 17 episode, which comes days after the death of bandleader Cleto Escobedo III. In the ...

"Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s" house band is going by a new moniker. The group, originally named "Cleto and the Cletones," revealed their new name during the late-night show’s Nov. 17 episode, which comes ...