may I ask, whatever happened to Nina's? last time I was in Zurich, I could'nt find it anymore.
Replaced by some travel agency replace by ... she went on to sell records in some of the old-fashioned high-brow stores on the other side of the Limmat, I think (not sure if that was right away, nor if she's still there). Her shop was a cool place, I spent many hours in there, I even happened to be around the afternoon a newspaper guy came to take a photo (for the eulogy to be published a few weeks later) ... was the only time my photo was in the paper
Anyway, I loved browsing the Penguin guide there ... and listening to some music. She had some Mosaic sets, too (at crazy prices, like 2.5 or more the amount you'd pay for a direct order), but back then I had no idea what these boringly looking b/w boxes were all about (and the price tags put to halt any further inquiries). Crazy prices, though, were a general issue there ... i.e. she sold OJCCDs at full price as the only one in town (at Jecklin, which around that time - end of the 90es, earliest 00s - expanded to a second floor dedicated to jazz & world, you'd get a huge choice of OJCCDs for less than two third of Nina's price ... anyway, Jecklin gave up that additional floor after a mere couple of years and by now their stores are all closed too, taken over by the rival Musik Hug which only maintains the main store at Limmatquai with an okay-ish classical but lacklustre jazz department, not enough space, and on top of it all an elitist owner who actually would prefer selling grand pianos to the global elite residing at the shores of lake Zurich, instead of being bothered by normal people wanting to buy some pop (ugh!) music ... as I said: record stores ceased to exist (there are a few left, but frankly I've long been buying on the net and don't feel like visiting hip hop and dj stores with small jazz corners).
Thks. sad but I guess kinda the way the world went.I liked to spend time first at her old place and her new store was one of the places I liked to go by when visiting Zurich. It was s bit of a hang. Listening to music looking thru the bins. a lot of times musicians around. sometimes drinking a glass of wine.
One day I looked at a Charles Tolliver record when somebody behind me said something to the tune of " oh that's another one I did not get a penny for". It was Alvin Queen. I knew some of Tollivers records but he kinda disappeared from my radar at that time. I asked Queen where Tolliver was and he said "He is hiding in New York".