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Late-night television lost a pillar of its musical backbone on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, when Cleto Escobedo III, longtime ...

Cleto Escobedo III, the bandleader of Jimmy Kimmel's show and his close childhood friend, died at the age of fifty-nine.