We have an engineering problem. 
Since the Artist fields contain both last and first names, we do not have sort access to order them by first or last name as I proposed above. To accomplish this would require building an array in RAM then running a sort on the [last], [first] fields within the [name] field.
After evaluating this from the code level, this turned into a "large" project that we cannot justify at this time. I've got it in our spec to do when we get a break.
Vista set us back about 6 months this year so we are still playing catch-up. We could work in a "small" project, but this is not in that class.