LOL. I ran across my own post from 5 years ago. I can answer it myself now:
from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins
import jenkinsapi
J = Jenkins('http://myjenkins:8080/', username='user', password='password')
job = J['my-job']
b = job.get_build(383)
b.get_description()
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