Guitar-slinging jazz torch Heather Blush used restrained sensuality and impressive lyrics to win valley fans during Monday’s Duncan Garage Showroom gig.

Assuming that concert was as good as her Showroom appearance Sunday and her Dancing Bean date Saturday, Blush is bound for far larger stages.

She deserves it but can’t take all the credit.

Drummer Steve Hazlett, from Blush’s Uppercuts band, helped the friendly singer mount a sound so tight, it warranted WD-40 by halftime.

And that effort happened without bassist Shane Sutherland who was away with his newborn kid.

Blush and Hazlett casually hammered out some 20 sizzling numbers of various styles boasting crisp lyrics local picker Ed Peekeekoot might call ear paintings.

Blush’s tunes, pulled from her CDs First Blush and Vice (soon to be matched with Versa), probed subjects spanning wanderlust (Born to Travel), freedom (Wild Things), fake frailty (Damsel In Distress), just desserts (I Don’t Blame You), a lucky guy’s one chance (Slugger), and confessed love (Intoxicating).

She also performed some personalized covers including a hot version of Aretha Franklin’s Baby I Love You, and Nina Simone’s naughty Forbidden Fruits.

Blessed with pipes reminiscent of Billie Holiday meets Serena Ryder, Blush has only begun to reveal the many shades in her songbook.

Jazz-roots concert rating: 9 vices out of 10.