The Galapagos Duck and The Removalists OST plus others

 

These folks are a bit too traditional jazz to my taste but here and there come up with some interesting fusionary arrangements and composed pieces, and as always thankfully the improvs are brief on these pieces.

Discography here. In the period until Voyage of the Beagle, released in 1983, they made an astonishing 9 albums (!) starting with Ebony Quill in 1974-- bear in mind that these are stuffed with cover versions and sometimes jazzed-up of really obnoxious songs like Grazing in the Grass.

An example of their smooth fusiony jazz style, Self Bloody Control from the OST 1974:

As usual from imdb, a synopsis of this movie:  A good and a bad cop assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.    Not much more info than this unfortunately.

Voyage of the Beagle was of great interest to me as it's obviously a thoughtfully composed concept album about Charles Darwin's explorations so you can certainly imagine the creative and evocative potential of the subject matter, but it's not quite as successful as I would have liked overall.  Note also the dramatic difference in cd and lp covers as shown above.