Cleto Escobedo III, leader of Jimmy Kimmel's house band, dies at 59

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As a kid growing up in Las Vegas, Cleto Escobedo and his best friend delighted in playing pranks together.

"We kind of had the same sense of humor," he recalled in a 2022 oral history interview with Texas Tech University.

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