General results page - specific results page - final result

I want to set up a page which pulls all instances of a recording artist's name from the database and displays them in a repeat region. Clicking on one of these artist's names will then take you to a second page displaying all recordings by them. Clicking on one of these will then take you to a detail page for that item. Sounds simple enough and I'd assumed I'd be able to do it with DataAssist but I can't work out how to get started with this. I can put together a page which pulls all the artists' names out of the database and then links to a detail page for each one, but the client is insistent on having this three stage selection. Is there a tutorial which might point me in the right direction, please?
Previous experience with DataAssist makes me think that the options are limited to a search page which then feeds into a results page, but ideally what I need is a results page (with the artists' names) which then feeds into a page with all options for that artist, which then feeds into the final detailed results page. If it's possible to do this with DA I'd love to know how.