In Brief

* 1/2 Roberta Flack, “Set the Night to Music,” Atlantic. Good news: Flack covers several old standards on this album. Bad news: She mostly does an atrocious job. Flack has one of the most velvety, sensuous voices around, but producer Arif Mardin lets it compete with an intrusive, gimmicky background chorus on a version of Dinah Washington’s “My Foolish Heart.” Flack doesn’t fare any better on a mildly funked-up rendition of Nat King Cole’s “Unforgettable.” Good songs. Bad, bad treatment.