How can I group collaborations under one artist?

Hi, this is hard to explain but I'm trying to group various collaborations under one artist so that it looks neater on my iTunes/iPod. I haven't managed to get it working right yet. I'll give an example:
I have various albums involving Elvis Costello. They include solo albums, but also albums credited to "Elvis Costello and the Attractions", "...and the Imposters", "...with Burt Bacharach" and so on. I don't want to drop these titles, but I would like them all to be sorted on my ipod in a folder named "Elvis Costello". I've tried fiddling about with the Artist, Album Artist, Sort Album, Sort Album Artist fields etc but i haven't had any luck.
I'm using iTunes 11.1.5.5, and an iPod Classic 2.0.4.
Does anyone know how I can do this? Thanks.

I have exactly this situation, with the following solution:
In all cases where I have one Artist per album (most of EC's albums), set the Sort Artist to "Costello, Elvis", leave the Album Artist and Sort Album Artist fields blank
For compilations like "Out of Our Idiot", where the Artist field varies across tracks, set Album Artist to "Elvis Costello" and Sort Album Artist to "Costello, Elvis", leave the Sort Album field blank
For all albums set the Sort Album to "Costello, Elvis yyyymmdd" where yyyymmdd is the release date - this is a standard scheme that I use to ensure than when sorted by Artist & Title albums appear in correct release order (sorting by Album and Year doesn't always work when an artist has more than one release per year - I categorize live albums by recording date, so this works particularly well for artists with multiple live releases from the same year, e.g. I have 33 Grateful Dead albums* where the Year field is 1972, including the recording/release date field in the Sort Album ensures that these are listed in correct sequential order).
With this approach the Albums listing on my iPod Nano 7th gen is (to me) correct, being ordered by artist and then by release date.
* I have each of the 22 shows from the "Europe '72" box set in iTunes as separate albums.

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