Cleto Escobedo III, the “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” bandleader, died Tuesday morning, the late-night host introduced.
In posts on social media, Jimmy Kimmel described Escobedo as a “nice buddy, father, son, musician and man.” He urged his followers to maintain Escobedo’s household of their ideas.
“Cleto and I’ve been inseparable since I used to be 9 years previous,” Kimmel wrote. “The truth that we started working collectively every single day is a dream neither of us might ever have imagined would come true.”
The information comes after Kimmel postponed a present taping final week for a “private matter.”
Escobedo, a Las Vegas native, has led Cleto and the Cletones for Kimmel’s late-night present for greater than 20 years. Kimmel moved in throughout the road from Escobedo in 1977 when the comic’s dad and mom left New York for Sin Metropolis.
Kimmel devoted a section to Escobedo in 2016 for his buddy’s fiftieth birthday, joking that the 2 had the kind of friendship constructed on “the form of torture that you could solely inflict — an older brother can inflict on you with out being arrested.”
He teased his buddy about instances when Kimmel rode within the sidecar of Escobedo’s bicycle only for Escobedo to steer him into trash cans. Kimmel informed one story a couple of time when he constructed a go-kart out of wooden as a baby, solely to be sabotaged by his buddy.
“Cleto snuck into my storage and glued the steering column left or proper,” Kimmel mentioned. “I went proper into site visitors.”
On the finish of the section, Kimmel shared photographs of the 2 males from their time rising up collectively. One of many photographs was of them enjoying music collectively, with Kimmel on the clarinet and Escobedo on the saxophone.
Kimmel informed WABC the 12 months earlier than that he knew he needed to have Escobedo for his home band in 2003 when “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” first aired. Escobedo was a “little one prodigy” who ended up being an expert touring musician, Kimmel mentioned.
So Kimmel took the president of ABC to see Escobedo’s band carry out and “he cherished it.”
“In fact I wished nice musicians, however I wished any person I had chemistry with,” Kimmel mentioned. “And there’s no person in my life I’ve higher chemistry with than him.”
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