“Stiletto” by Billy Joel

"Stiletto" sits on 52nd Street, the 1978 record Billy Joel made on the heels of his breakthrough, The Stranger, and he wrote every word and note of it himself. That album was his bid for a fresh sound: he brought in a crew of jazz players to set it apart from what he'd done before, and cut it at A&R Recording, a studio on the very Manhattan street that gave the record its name, where jazz musicians had held court from the Depression years into the 1950s.

Phil Ramone produced it and shared the mixing duties with engineer Jim Boyer, with Dave Martone assisting behind the glass.

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