Mating Call

{{about|the 1956 album by Tadd Dameron|other uses|Mating call (disambiguation)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Mating Call

| type = studio

| artist = Tadd Dameron

| cover = matingcall.jpg

| alt =

| released = February or March 1957

| recorded = November 30, 1956

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 34:45

| label = Prestige

| producer = Bob Weinstock

| prev_title = Fontainebleau

| prev_year = 1956

| next_title = The Magic Touch of Tadd Dameron

| next_year = 1962

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r137305}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 56

}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=328}}

}}

Mating Call is a studio album by jazz musician Tadd Dameron with saxophonist John Coltrane, issued in early 1957 on Prestige Records.{{cite book |title=The John Coltrane Reference |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York/Abingdon |isbn=9781135112578 |editor-last=Porter |editor-first=Lewis |editor-link=Lewis Porter |page=451}}{{cite news |title=Mating Call |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=mating+7070&pg=PA38 |accessdate=3 October 2019 |work=The Billboard |publisher=The Billboard Publishing Co. |date=9 March 1957}} It was recorded at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey.